A Conversation with Lee Mun Wah: An Unfinished Conversation about Race

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This is a nearly two hour video recorded in studio with a live audience.

LEE MUN WAH is an internationally acclaimed Chinese American documentary filmmaker, author, poet, Asian folkteller, educator, community therapist and master diversity trainer. He is the Executive Director of Stirfry Seminars & Consulting, a diversity training company that provides educational tools and workshops on issues pertaining to cross-cultural communication and awareness, mindful facilitation, and conflict mediation techniques. Thousands of people from government and social service agencies, corporations and educational institutions have taken Lee Mun Wah’s workshops and partnered with Stirfry Seminars & Consulting on their diversity initiatives.

His most famous film about racism, The Color of Fear, won the Gold Medal for Best Social Studies Documentary at the San Francisco International Film Festival. In 1995, Oprah Winfrey did a one-hour special on Lee Mun Wah’s life and work that was seen by over 15 million viewers internationally.

It is Lee Mun Wah’s belief that we cannot wait until tomorrow for some charismatic leader to appear who will bring us all together. We each must take a stand and personally participate in this important journey of confronting our fears and beginning a conversation not only with those we love but also with those we have been taught to fear. We cannot continue being separate and unequal without there being a cost to each and every generation. Our survival and the very future of our children depend on all of us embracing our differences as well as our mutuality. If we can accomplish this in our lifetime, we can then look back and know that we have found a way to live together authentically and harmoniously, using and honoring all of our gifts and special contributions. To Lee Mun Wah, that is the true meaning of multiculturalism.

In conversation with NATUREZA GABRIEL, Founder of Hearth Science, SPC.